How to Hard Reset the Samsung Galaxy S Mobile

If you have Samsung Galaxy S smartphone then probably you have the best smartphone which runs on Android. With resetting your mobile phone you get increase in space and importantly increase in speed. Now a reset to your mobile phone will delete all the data which are stored in your phone memory like media files, contacts, messages and others media files with settings, good thing is there will be no delete of data from the microSD card.

The soft reset of your mobile restores your mobile to its factory settings but if you are not able to do soft reset then what do you do? Don’t worry you can do a hard reset on your mobile phone. Here is the procedure on how to hard reset your Samsung Galaxy S mobile phone with step by step instructions.

Turn of your mobile phone and reinsert the battery.

Continuously hold the Volume Down button.

Press and release the power button.

You would be presented with the options like Fastbook, Recovery, Simlock and clear storage and now release the Volume Down button.

Select the Clear Storage by pressing download the Volume Down button.

Press and release the power button.

Now confirm your decision: Volume Up for Yes and Volume Down for No.

So select YES to delete all the data including the third party applications from your Samsung Galaxy S. It will automatically reboot when the process is successful.

Updates :

You can easily wipe off the date from your mobile phone by selecting Menu > Settings > Privacy and then select Factory data reset to erase all the data present in your mobile phone which is not recoverable.

My wifes SII is having problems. When she makes a phone call, the screen goes black and stays that way. She is able to finish the call fine and when the person she calls hangs up the call ends. but the black screen never returns to the home page. It just stays black. The only thing she can do is hold down the startup button on the right side of the phone which reboots the phone as if it had been turned off. Every phone call, incomgin or outgoing, she has to reboot the phone to regain access to the screen icons, otherwise the screen just stays black and unreponsive. We finally did a factory reset of the phone hoping it was just a software conflict. No such luck. The same phenomenon happens after each phone call even after the factory reset. Any other ideas?

I think my Galaxy has a virus and would like to reset it to factory. I have tried the factory reset on the phone and get the message (No reset was performed because the System Clear service is not available). Then I tried pushing the volume button with the power button and the phone just starts up. It doesn’t give me a window with the options you referred to. I tired this way at lease a dozen times holding things many different ways and go the same result. The phone just starts up, no window. Will you please help me with this. I would really like to just start over with my phone. I love this phone but just want to change what I have in it.

I tried everything looked up videos on my computer and every thing and it just keeps goin to the gmail thin ive tried to put in my gmail yahoo and youtube accounts password but it keeps sayin itsrong but when I put it inmy computerits right lik I need halp for\real and I cant talk to none of myfriends or familycan anyone help me??????

I have a problem, I always startup my Samsung S1 and I enter an application and its like ‘Welcome first time user to this application’ and then gives me a guide around the app like its the first time I have been on it.
I would like a way to fix this because on my keyboard application I have to redownload the laungauge pack repeatedly and this really eats up my data limits, if someone could answer that would be nice… If the moderator can see my email please email with a fix.

2) my phone , T9000 galaxy S keeps freezing
wht would hv happened? would damaged battery lead to this problem?
it often says the internal sd card is unexpectedly removed while i did nothing..
and sometimes it reboots itself and cleared my contact list and logs
but the softwares i downloaded are remained unchage

2) my phone , T9000 galaxy S keeps freezing
wht would hv happened? would damaged battery lead to this problem?
it often says the internal sd card is unexpectedly removed while i did nothing..
and sometimes it reboots itself and cleared my contact list and logs
but the softwares i downloaded are remained unchage

please help me.i,m in a trouble with my galaxy s2 i9100g.an icon with tow mobile phone and a p.c appeared on screen with a danger sign between them.no key work .i tried several time to remove the battery and install it again but nothing changed .

AT&T bricked my Galaxy S (Captivate) and I have tried all the methods listed here but none of them work. The splash screen appears followed by the Galaxy S logo screen then the phone goes dark and vibrates every thirty seconds. When I attempt a factory reset using the method above, it tells me it is missing a file and the screen goes blank. How/or where can I download the OS for this phone in order to get it back to working?

I did a factory reset on my samsung galaxy s ii but dont have 3g anmore i previously did no problems. Under wireless and networks>mobile networks> data roaming and use packet data are ticked. dont know what to do. please help!!!!

I have a GT19003. I am unable to reset content of my mobile. i have done a soft reset and a hard reset as mentioned above, but all games and applications still seem to exist. But the device is giving me all sorts of exceptions on various java packages.

I am unable to use it and i am unabel to reset it. can i get it ABSOLUTELY REFRESHED with OS that it came up with. It currently has 2.3.5.

AT&T bricked my Galaxy S and now I have no way of getting it to turn on. What can I do? I have tried all the methods listed here but none of them work. The splash screen appears followed by the Galaxy S logo screen then the phone goes dark and vibrates every thirty seconds. It’s also way out of warranty so I have no way of getting it replaced (I’ve already tried through AT&T).

Why have I never seen anyone say to UN-SYNC your phone before reset?!!!!
The last time I reset my phone, it erased all my Google Calendar because it was in sync.

I don’t completely trust Kies with the backup, but I still do it. I believe in redundancy, so I manually transfer all folders to my computer as well. (or music, pictures, downloads etc. …All the important stuff!)

Again, I TURN OFF Sync under “Settings > Accounts and sync > Auto-sync”, to be sure no “cloud data” disappears on me again!! I lost a ton of seriously important data and will never let it happen again, and I hope to save everyone out there the trauma I suffered! LOL

Hello!.. Just need help to recover my phone. I forgot my pattern password. I had too many attempts and bcoz of that I can’t use my phone right now. It says that I should log in with my Google account. I tried so many procedures to win it back but it just didn’t work. So, I’m hoping you can help me with this matter. BTW, my phone is Samsung Galaxy GT-I9003..tnx much

Hello! I have a problem about my samsung galaxy s.. I forgot my pattern password and I had so many pattern attempts. I’ve been searching on how to recover it. It appears on how to unlock, I should sign in with my Google account. I tried all the procedures I found but it didn’t worked. So, I’m hoping you can help me with it..tnx much

Hello. I have a problem. I updated my I9000 through Odin,with Gingerbread 2.3.5,and now Kies shows me a message: your device does not accept firmware upgrade. So, the question is: HOW I COULD DOWNGRADE TO AN OFFICIAL FIRMWARE( + METHOD) WITHOUT KIES`S PROBLEM? I MEAN, I WANT TO INSTALL A FIRMWARE USING ODIN,IF IT IS POSSIBLE, THAT KIES RECOGNIZE IT TO BE ABLE FROM NOW ON TO DO AN UPDATE WITH KIES. Thank you!

Neal, You seem so knowledgable, I want to/NEED to upgrade my Galaxy X from Eclair to Froyo and maybe even Gingerbread but when I attempted to do so thru KIES, I found it is not compatible with out 64-bit computers.

That’s all I have access to. And of course it’s impossible to do over the air.

And ideas on how I can do a firmware upgrade given these obstacles? In my last hard reset, it seems I’ve losr my flash player too and the most recent versions only work with 2.2.

I have a GT9000 Galaxy S. I had a fatal error and now when the phone boots up it goes to a black screen. I have tryed the hard reset but it does not work (or I just can see that im in the screen) I have pushed the volume down 3 times to get to I think where the menue is but I still get nothing. Any Help would be great.

i know you guys have informed that when we do a factory data reset, we are unable to recover any data at all. Im trying to see whether i can retrieve my contacts which stored in the phone after i factory reset it.

I installed Samsung GalaxyS_Gingerbread_2.3.5 in to my Galaxy S, but i found that I am not able to run any applications that i downloaded from Samsung Market, its says that “This is not a Licensed version … ” and the program just exists, also i tried to format it and revert back to my old Android Froyo but i am not able to do so, and i did a hard reset still it only resets the current Gingerbread version. How do I reset it back to the Original Factory installed software ??? Please advise.

I have a Galaxy S GT-i9000 that I need to hard reset. I tried to get in but someone changed the lock combo. After many tries it is now asking me for my google acoount, but i don’t even have one. I tried to follow the steps above but all that got me was the phone booting into the same irritating home screen. Can anyone help me through the hard reboot.

hi..i have samsung galaxy S…i rooted my phone and installed cyenagonmod 7.1….installation was fine but i was not able to recover my old data….so i deed back up and restore from rom manager but i dont know after doing that i m not able to restart my phone it is not getting booted or started. i tried everything from pressing volume down key and pressing power button but i m helpless…my phone is stuck and i m not able to start my phone….plz help me for this guyzz…….thnksssss

Try this –
You can easily wipe off the date from your mobile phone by selecting Menu > Settings > Privacy and then select Factory data reset to erase all the data present in your mobile phone which is not recoverable.

iv installed ROM 2.3.4 on my galaxy s i 9000 (last ROM was froyo 2.2). one of the steps was “wipe data/factory reset” & “wipe Cache partition”. wasnt it supposed to delete all the files on the SD card? because i still have all the old files (pics/music and others).

if i wanted to delete all those? what was I supposed to do?
i want to clear the SD card and have only the files from the new ROM without any of the old one.

I have the Galaxy S and bought it outright, IE not simlocked or anything. I bought it from a Vodafone store in NZ. There I got 3G. Moved to Aussie, changed to Vodafone au and got 3G there too.

Changed to Telstra a month or so later but no 3G. Even after removing Vodafone APN and setting Telstra. I am told I will need to reset the phone. However I have a feeling that their is a file which will probably still exist even after a reset that won’t solve the problem.

In the file structure under /system/csc/ there is a file called customer.xml which contains some APN info relevant to the Vodafone NZ provider. This file is referenced by another xml file in the root called SW_configuration.xml. I cannot edit these files as not root.

Do you know any way I can remove the old vodafone xml files (which must be overriding the APN settings). It is very frustrating as I currently only get 2G data not 3G. I have tested my sim in other phones and it gets 3G fine, but any sim placed into my phone only gets 2G.

You should be able to restore your backuped data (trough KIES) to your phone.
However this is not 100% fullproof though. You might have to re-install some apps/settings.
There are quite some posts on different forums stating not all data could be restored because the data wasn’t backuped completely by KIES.

IF YOU’RE PHONE IS ROOTED and ONLY IF, you could buy “Titanium Backup for root users” from the Market and make a full backup. (T B won’t work with non-rooted phones)
That way all your apps + settings (including high-scores from games) will be backed up.
With Titanium Backup you’re able to select wich apps/settings are to be backuped.

If I do a Hard Reset, will the phone remain on the latest firmware update I did? Or will it go back to the factory software version (Android 2.1)?
Also, if a do a backup of all the data and apps stored on my phone, can I restore them after the Hard Reset?
Thanks!